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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: General Fiction
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is...
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak...
The Seventh Man - Max Brand
The Seventh Man - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as βWhistling Dan,β and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion. Itβs also the...
The Professor - Charlotte BrontΓ«
The Professor - Charlotte BrontΓ«
- Author: Charlotte BrontΓ«
- Genre: General Fiction
The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. (Summary from Wikipedia, adapted by Stav Nisser)...
Letters of Travel - Rudyard Kipling
Letters of Travel - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting...
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughton's business concern. Nobody seems to have any clue as to how the vault can be...
Life in the Iron Mills - Rebecca Harding Davis
Life in the Iron Mills - Rebecca Harding Davis
- Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
- Genre: General Fiction
This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tells the story of Hugh Wolfe, a Welsh laborer in an iron mill who is also a talented sculptor, and of Deborah, the...
Oomphel in the Sky - H. Beam Piper
Oomphel in the Sky - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily bringing about their own demise. The planetary government canβt overcome its own bureaucracy to help them,...
The Autobiography of a Slander - Edna Lyall
The Autobiography of a Slander - Edna Lyall
- Author: Edna Lyall
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of "the slander", Edna Lyall (pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley) reveals her...
Mount Royal Volume II - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mount Royal Volume II - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major...
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879β1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk. The...
More William - Richmal Crompton
More William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas...
The Branding Iron - Katharine Newlin Burt
The Branding Iron - Katharine Newlin Burt
- Author: Katharine Newlin Burt
- Genre: General Fiction
From the cold and mountainous regions of Wyoming to the bright lights of the big city, The Branding Iron is the story of a remarkable woman, Joan Carver. Born of poor means, at a fairly young age Joan decides to leave her father and strike out on...
Fables in Slang - George Ade
Fables in Slang - George Ade
- Author: George Ade
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous βfablesβ which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists,...
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, AmyβLittle Dorritβthe daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is crossed by Arthur Clennam. Their...
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Religious Fiction
The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicide. Her doctor is unable to help her and sends her off on a holiday where she meets a mystical character by...
A House-Boat on the Styx - John Kendrick Bangs
A House-Boat on the Styx - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the conventional Hell described by Dante in The...
Non-Combatants and Others - Rose Macaulay
Non-Combatants and Others - Rose Macaulay
- Author: Rose Macaulay
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical novel is passionate, and witty - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Parasite (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Parasite (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
In this short novel of 1894, Conan Doyle describes a character with seemingly extraordinary powers. Are these powers occult or are they only in the minds of other people? There is no Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery. (Summary by Delmar H....
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: General Fiction
Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) was Goethe's third novel. It depicts human relationships in a Romantic crucible, and is the sourcebook and inspiration for many literary and filmic adaptations and variations. - Summary by Nicole Lee...
Roderick Hudson - Henry James
Roderick Hudson - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts,...
Born Again - Alfred Lawson
Born Again - Alfred Lawson
- Author: Alfred Lawson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have...
The Plastic Age - Percy Marks
The Plastic Age - Percy Marks
- Author: Percy Marks
- Genre: General Fiction
The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks, which tells the story of co-eds at a fictional college called Sanford. With contents that covered or implied hazing, partying, and "petting", the book sold well enough to be the second best-selling...
The Lovels of Arden - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Lovels of Arden - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first...
Tom Ossington's Ghost - Richard Marsh
Tom Ossington's Ghost - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for a piano lesson from Madge, suddenly bolts out the back door and over the hedge when he sees a rough-looking...
The Man Who Lost Himself - H. De Vere Stacpoole
The Man Who Lost Himself - H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Genre: General Fiction
Best known for his literary work The Blue Lagoon, which has been made into film several times over, H. De Vere Stacpooleβs first publication was a book titled The Intended in 1894. Stacpoole was disappointed at its lack of commercial success, and...
The Colors of Space (version 2) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Colors of Space (version 2) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Young Bart Steeleβs father is dead. A mysterious stranger tells him his life is in danger, and hands him a ticket aboard a Lhari star cruiser to an unknown destination. He gets on, not knowing where he is going, or why... A fantastic kidβs adventure...
Manfred - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Manfred - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Plays
Manfred is a dramatic poem in three acts by Lord Byron, and possibly a self confessional work. A noble, Manfred, is haunted by the memory of some unspeakable crime. In seeking for forgetfulness and oblivion, he wanders between his castle and the...
The Master Mystery - Arthur B. Reeve
The Master Mystery - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
While Harry Houdini didn't rise to fame as a screen actor, silent film makers of the day sought to capitalize on his fame. The Master Mystery was Houdini's first such attempt, and it was embraced by the viewing public, leading to other screen roles...
The Wheel Of Time - Henry James
The Wheel Of Time - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old family. What will transpire? (David Wales)...
Mount Royal Vol. I - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mount Royal Vol. I - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with the emphasis on romance. -summary by Celine Major...
The Dutch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Dutch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in different countries, both in the spirit and atmosphere of the story, and in the actual descriptions. These...
Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"....
What Diantha Did - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What Diantha Did - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: General Fiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate the circumstances of women in the early 20th century.Diantha Bell is a normal young woman desiring marriage...
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several...
Unleavened Bread - Robert Grant
Unleavened Bread - Robert Grant
- Author: Robert Grant
- Genre: General Fiction
A businessman's selfish wife forces her way into upper society. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Null-ABC - H. Beam Piper
Null-ABC - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
"There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'" is held responsible ...?"(quote from Astounding Science Fiction, Feb 1953)...
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages...
Fanny Herself - Edna Ferber
Fanny Herself - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally considered to have been based on Ferberβs own experiences growing up in Appleton, Wisconsin. Regarded by many as...
Mr Scarborough's Family - Anthony Trollope
Mr Scarborough's Family - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance to avaricious money-lenders who hold post-obits to the entire value of the estate.Then Mr. Scarborough...